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say it: boob
boob is a noun and verb meaning "an ignorant or foolish person". It carries 3 recorded senses.
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
“I blundered during the job interview”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boob come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.